UNESCO experts insist that a huge dam would destroy the “authenticity and integrity” of the World Heritage Site in Laos. Activists say dam operators and…
This wonderful oasis of Lao culture Mekong heritage is under threat from more dams along the endangered Mekong In 1995 Luang Prabang became a UNESCO-recgonised…
The government of Laos plans to build a 1,460-megawatt hydroelectric dam upstream of the ancient city of Luang Prabang, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The…
World heritage site vulnerable to earthquake possibility, Thai specialist says Photo by Tom Fawthrop A leading Thai geologist is warning that a huge new…
The World Heritage site in Laos is endangered by mega-projects and Mekong dams. Laos’ ancient royal capital, dating back a thousand years, offers a magical…
Rivers contribute to transport, tourism, hydropower and resources including fish and freshwater. Yet excessive drought, dam-building and other development can ruin rivers. That is happening…
The cost-cutting and lack of oversight that led to the dam’s collapse plague other hydropower projects across the country. The Lao dam disaster in Attapeu…
How China’s grand strategy for the Mekong impacts the river, and the countries downstream. The Mekong has long cast a mystical spell over adventurers, wildlife…
Asia’s great river is under growing threat from hydropower. The great biodiversity and precious resources of the Mekong are increasingly endangered by the rush to…
One of over 100 Vann Molyvann creations between 1956 -1970 blending ancient Angkorian with French modernist style Vann Molyvann designed buildings taking to keep them…
Can Tho – Vietnam wants Lao to reconsider the Pak Beng hydropower project as its environmental impacts to the Mekong Delta will strike Vietnam, Cambodia and…
A proposal to establish a wider channel for commercial shipping on the Mekong has sparked outrage among environmentalists, writes Tom Fawthrop Hundreds of Thai NGOs…
The Thai government has moved ahead with the plan to boost trade, sparking outrage among environmentalists. Hundreds of Thai NGOs are mobilising a campaign…
Saving the Salween: Southeast Asia's last major undammed river Tom Fawthrop, 13th June, 2016 The free-flowing Salween is the last big undammed river in Southeast…
FROM HAVANA WITH LOVE a new documentary by Tom Fawthrop, Eureka Films production 2015-6. How many people in the world would guess correctly, which country…
HEALING AFRICA THE HAVANA PRESCRIPTION a Eureka Films documentary by Tom Fawthrop 2017 How many people in the world would guess correctly, which country in…
Mekong consultants have exposed serious flaws in the Don Sahong Dam project, which continues regardless. A battle is raging over the swirling currents, the rock…
THE MIGHTY KHONE PRAPENG FALLS SIPANDON SOUTHERN LAOS pic Tom Fawthrop Eureka Films has just completed a second film about the dams on the Mekong.Scientists have…
Thai geologist notes the massive barrage on the Mekong lies close to fault zones; contractor insists seismic guidelines are being followed Earthquake experts have renewed…
“If the Mekong is destroyed, the fishery, according to estimates, will be reduced by something like between 40 percent to 60 percent.” A documentary showing…
KILLING IN THE NAME OF BUDDHA - How a well-funded minority of Buddhist monks backed by some high-ranking officials have orchestrated a murderous campaign against…
KILLING IN THE NAME OF BUDDHA - How a well-funded minority of Buddhist monks backed by some high-ranking officials have orchestrated a murderous campaign against…
The Mekong is among Southeast Asia's greatest rivers, sustaining tens of millions from its abundant fisheries and its floodwaters which both irrigate and fertilise. But…
Europe’s Pöyry Energy and its controversial role as Xayaburi dam consultant have been challenged under new OECD CSR rules. Its turbulent currents snake their way…
Controversial project will spark water conflicts along Mekong, Environmentalists and NGOs say The consulting firm that gave Laos a green light for a controversial dam…
Controversial project will spark water conflicts along Mekong, Environmentalists and NGOs say The consulting firm that gave Laos a green light for a controversial dam…
THE Mekong river, snaking its way through the heart of South-East Asia, has long sustained the world’s biggest and most productive inland fishery, supplying protein…
The Mekong, a precious jewel of Southeast Asia, has become a critical battleground between hydropower dam projects and the survival of the world's greatest freshwater…
A DENSE cloud of diplomatic doublespeak hangs over the turbid waters of the Mekong. An amazing week of conflicting statements, stark contradictions and confusion has…
WHAT looked like an admittedly temporary reprieve for the swift currents and extraordinary biodiversity of the Mekong river is now over. In December the Mekong…
CLIMATE change threatens the Mekong river, continental South-East Asia's lifeblood, at both source and mouth. As glaciers shrink in the Tibetan Himalayas from where the…
The roaring currents of the Mekong have long enchanted travellers, inspired explorers and sustained about 65 million people living off the world's largest freshwater fisheries.…
